Nuclear physics gets a stepping stone to the ‘island of stability’
First direct mass measurement of a trans-uranium element
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Higgs hunters face long haul
Transatlantic bid to discover Higgs particle enters new phase as the LHC prepares to join the fray
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Law and the end of the world
Edwin Cartlidge examines the case of a US lawyer who believes that the courts must step in if required to halt experiments like the Large Hadron Collider
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E8 symmetry spotted in ultracold magnet
Neutron scattering confirms long-standing theoretical predictions
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CDMS gives possible evidence for dark matter
Two 'events' silence the rumour mill
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Budget deficit threatens Japanese science
Scientists braced for severe cuts to the country’s research programme
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Measuring (almost) zero
Chad Orzel explains why a non-zero value for the electron's electric dipole moment could be the harbinger of "new physics"
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Worth the time
Paul J Nahin probes the enduring mystery of time
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Quark-like confinement seen in the lab
Spinons in a solid behave like quarks
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First neutrinos for Japanese lab
Tokai-to-Kamioka experiment will study neutrino oscillations
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